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Stories for PowerSeattleOur host, Deana Lewis, chats with Theryn Kigvamasudvashti, Kiyomi Fujikawa and Shannon Perez-Darby whose early community accountability work in Seattle rippled throughout the country. Their feminist abolitionist work inside and outside the evolving local domestic and sexual violence non-profit context in the late 1990’s and early 2000’s innovated so much of what we still use today. They discuss the critical work from Black-led, survivor-led, punk and queer and trans communities to create the many iconic projects such as Communities Against Rape and Assault (CARA) and API Chaya that were born during this critical era and that together dismantled the foun...2025-06-0345 min
Stories for PowerPhillyJoin our host Deana Lewis as she interviews Esteban Kelly and Jenna Peters-Golden who were core collective members of Philly Stands Up that worked to restore trust and justice within the Philadelphia punk community starting in the early 2000’s. Philly Stands Up developed essential frameworks and practices for supporting accountability and change for people who cause harm while also supporting survivors in their rage and healing via Philly’s Pissed. They talk about how their close knit queer and trans community impacted the larger activist world and supported the long term work to end sexual violence throughout the city and...2025-05-2737 min
Stories for PowerAtlantaDeana Lewis chats with Cara Page and Mia Mingus about their work in Atlanta during the early to mid 2000’s. They discuss the building of the Atlanta Transformative Justice Collaborative whose critical work intersected with the beginnings of the frameworks of healing justice and disability justice and the burgeoning reproductive justice movement. Mia and Cara talk about the impact of racism, Islamophobia, ableism, anti-immigrant, homophobic and reproductive oppression and the fallout from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Their collective work contributed to what became some of the pillars of transformative justice work throughout the city of Atlanta, the South and be...2025-05-201h 04
Stories for PowerSan Francisco Bay AreaJoin Deana Lewis as she speaks with our guests Rachel Herzing, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, and Mimi Kim about the essential organizing they were a part of to end violence without police, prisons and other carceral systems during the early to mid-2000’s in Oakland and San Francisco. They discuss the impact of the events of September 11, ongoing gentrification, and ableism on forming abolitionist politics and synergy with the work of Critical Resistance and Incite!. Their reflections on the emergence of community accountability and transformative justice work in that era discern the nuance between what we call the work of in...2025-05-131h 12
Stories for PowerNew York CityHost Deana Lewis speaks with abolitionist feminists kai lumumba barrow, Paula X. Rojas, and Ejeris Dixon about organizing in New York City during the late 90’s and early to mid 2000’s. Their work to end police violence was spurred by police murders of Black and Brown people in New York City, sexual violence by police that targeted young people in Brooklyn, and anti-queer and transphobic violence throughout the city. Their projects ~ Sista II Sista, Critical Resistance NYC, Safe Outside the System, and the creation of Harm-Free Zones ~ built transformative justice and community accountability organizing at the local level to forg...2025-05-0658 min
Stories for PowerDurhamIn this episode, our host Deana Lewis, speaks with three Black feminist abolitionist organizers from Durham’s SpiritHouse. Nia Wilson, Mya Hunter and Alexis Pauline Gumbs discuss the Black and Brown survivor led group they formed called Ubuntu as a response to the Duke lacrosse rape case that led to the creation of one of the first Harm-Free Zones in the country. Their work as artists, educators and cultural organizers prompted a culture of care and community and fierce organizing that changed the way we understand and practice abolition today.List of references mentioned in...2025-04-291h 11
Stories for PowerTrans & Queer OrganizingIn this episode, host Deana Lewis talks with micah hobbes frazier and Morgan Bassichis, two trans/nonbinary leaders of the transformative justice/prison abolition movement emerging out of radical organizing in queer/trans spaces in the early to mid-2000’s. micah, in his role at generationFIVE and in the harm reduction movement, and Morgan, formerly at Communities United Against Violence (CUAV), reflect on the centrality of queer/trans justice, racial and economic justice, and prison abolition as anchors to early transformative justice work. In stark contrast to the conservative LGBTQ movement’s embrace of marriage, military inclusion, hate crimes and...2025-04-2253 min
Stories for PowerIntroductionWelcome to Stories for Power! Creative Interventions and Just Practice Collaborative joined forces to re-launch the StoryTelling & Organizing Project (STOP) project to document and collect histories and stories about how we have been working to respond to violence without the use of prisons, police and other carceral systems. Deana Lewis, our podcast host and Just Practice Collaborative member, speaks with producers Mimi Kim, Rachel Caidor and Shira Hassan to introduce Stories for Power. These abolitionist feminists share how they envisioned and curated the podcast series to document the evolution of community accountability and transformative justice frameworks and...2025-04-1538 min
Stories for PowerPresenting: Stories for PowerWhat does transformative justice look like and where did it come from? Join us for a journey across local communities as we explore the last 25 years of building community accountability, transformative justice and abolitionist practice. Through the Stories for Power podcast, hosted by Deana Lewis, we trace the work of some of the architects and radical organizers of this current wave of work. This podcast is part of the relaunch of STOP – the StoryTelling & Organizing Project – presented by Creative Interventions and Just Practice Collaborative. STOP collects and shares stories of everyday people, organizations and networks taking action to co...2025-04-0801 min
Basket CaseIt's a very ritualized, precious routineFor Maryam, anorexia was a way to disappear. But outside the institutions meant to cure eating disorders, she learns to resist the binary of recovery or death. Transcript This episode was produced by Maryam Gunja and Phoebe Unter. And informed by… Studying Hunger Journals by Bernadette Mayer Hungry Bengal: War, Famine and the End of Empire by Janam Mukherjee Saving our own lives: a liberatory practice of harm reduction by Shira Hassan Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body by Susan Bordo We n...2024-12-0332 min
The Deep DiveEpisode 200: The Resilience Myth w/ Soraya ChemalyOn episode 200, Philip welcome author and activist Soraya Chemaly to the show. They discuss her latest book The Resilience Myth and how our belief systems on resilience, grit and strength impact us as individuals and as a society.
The Drop – The segment of the show where Philip and his guest share tasty morsels of intellectual goodness and creative musings.
Philip’s Drop:
Saving Our Own Lives: A Lberatory Practice of Harm Reduction – Shira Hassan
Soraya’s Drop:
The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life...2024-09-121h 15
Addiction Recovery Place PodcastEp.8 Addiction Research non-carceral approaches to drug useTopics discussed in this episode
🟣Family's migrant history inspired a love of underdog stories
🟣Qaulitative field researcher who works in street-based drug markets with people who use drugs
🟣Drug use history and prohibition in North America & Australia
🟣George's research paper "The Coloniality of Drug Prohibition" and the impact on Indigenous peoples
🟣Non-carceral approaches to drug use
🟣Forcing people to the edge of society
🟣Research at the Sydney Medically Supervised Injecting Center
🟣Police and prisons aren't the ideal place to moderate people's drug use
🟣 Alcohol consumption, domestic violence, and alcohol prohibition
🟣Shira Hassan's book "Saving Our Own Lives"
🟣Communities of people who had been abandoned by social...2024-06-0736 min
But Her Lyrics...Fucking Cancelled with Clementine & Jay - 034Content Warning: sexual assault, child abuse, addiction, racism, and other heavy themes are discussed.
Host Shawna Potter talks to Clementine Morrigan and Jay Lesoleil, the hosts of Fucking Cancelled (two L’s because they’re Canadian), a podcast that examines all things related to cancel culture in lefty/progressive circles. In this episode, Shawna aims to learn more about their critiques and what influenced them. They talk about real life experiences with cancel culture, the effects it has on victims of violence, trauma-responses, how to best support survivors of rape, sexual assault, and abuse, and so much more...2024-04-0951 min
Liberatory Imagination with TiffanyI Can't Seem to Get Into a RhythmHistorically, I’ve been a pretty consistent morning routine person. After the usual (brush my teeth, skin routine, coffee, making the bed), I would sit down on my couch and pull out my bullet journal, normal journal, and two books. First, I would list out all my to-do’s in my bullet journal and then assign tasks to the hour blocks. Then, I would free write in my journal until it feels complete - usually 15 minutes. The last thing, is I would read from two books. Usually an abolition non fiction book and then a fiction book. In the past...2024-04-0914 min
Death PanelTeaser - Liberatory Harm Reduction w/ Shira HassanSubscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/99724675
Beatrice speaks with Shira Hassan about reclaiming harm reduction from public health, reclaiming formations of "peer work" from the nonprofit world, and building the politics and practice of surviving together.
Find Shira's book, Saving Our Own Lives: A Liberatory Practice of Harm Reduction here: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1938-saving-our-own-lives
Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism
Find Jules' new book here: https://www.versobooks.com/products/3054-a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny
Runtime 1:34:39
🧬2024-03-0417 min
Interdependent StudyBeyond Carceral ResponsesWe must build community resources, interventions, and support that do not rely on the carceral system. Listen as Aaron and Damien discuss a resource guide by Shira Hassan and Interrupting Criminalization called “Painting the Ocean & the Sky”, which provides guidance to abolitionist activists, organizers, and leaders on best practices for building collective community-based, non-carceral responses to crises, and what we learn from this incredible resource in our continued learning about abolition and work for collective liberation.
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The upEND PodcastPlayground Experiments (with Maya Schenwar)After looking closely at how the family policing system operates, we zoom out to discuss how family policing is an extension of other carceral systems and how abolition is the solution. We just need to stretch our imagination.
About Our Guest:
Maya Schenwar is the director of the Truthout Center for Grassroots Journalism, and the board president of Truthout. She is the co-author (with Victoria Law) of "Prison by Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms," and the author of "Locked Down, Locked Out: Why Prison Doesn’t Work and How...2024-01-231h 08
The DALE ALLEN PodcastWomen of the World's Religions • Hanna YaffeWomen of the World’s Religions Interview Series from the first-ever Women's Village at the Parliament of the World's Religions Short Interviews Served Up Weekly I was honored to be a part of a special project for the Parliament of the World’s Religions Women's Task Force: conducting interviews inside the first-ever Women's Village. The invitation put forth at the Interview Suite was: Let Your Voice be Heard! In total, I interviewed 71 women, and I will share all of them. Each interview packs a powerful dose of inspiration in a few short minutes. 2023-11-0108 min
AirGoEp 327- One Million Experiments Part 17 - Just Practice Collaborative w/ Shira Hassan & Deana LewisThe 1ME crew welcomes the homies from Just Practice Collaborative, a training and mentoring group focused on sustaining a community of practitioners that provide community-based accountability and support structures for all parties involved with incidents and patterns of sexual, domestic, relationship, and intimate community violence. Collaborative members Shira Hassan and Deana Lewis talk through the intentionality of their design, what Transformative Justice should and shouldn’t be used for, and the importance of relationship to political experimentation. SHOW NOTES Critical Resistance - https://criticalresistance.org/ INCITE - https://incite-national.org/ Fumbling Towards Repair - https://www.akpress.org/fumbling-towards-repair.html Cr...2023-10-251h 22
One Million ExperimentsEpisode 17 - Just Practice Collaborative with Shira Hassan & Deana LewisThe 1ME crew welcomes the homies from Just Practice Collaborative, a training and mentoring group focused on sustaining a community of practitioners that provide community-based accountability and support structures for all parties involved with incidents and patterns of sexual, domestic, relationship, and intimate community violence. Collaborative members Shira Hassan and Deana Lewis talk through the intentionality of their design, what Transformative Justice should and shouldn’t be used for, and the importance of relationship to political experimentation.
SHOW NOTES
Critical Resistance - https://criticalresistance.org/
INCITE - https://incite-national.org/
Fumbling Towards Repair - https://www.akpress.org/fumbling-towards-repair.html
Cr...2023-10-251h 22
Death PanelTeaser - Liberatory Harm Reduction w/ Shira Hassan (10/02/23)Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/90195142
Beatrice speaks with Shira Hassan about reclaiming harm reduction from public health, reclaiming formations of "peer work" from the nonprofit world, and building the politics and practice of surviving together.
Find Shira's book, Saving Our Own Lives: A Liberatory Practice of Harm Reduction here: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1938-saving-our-own-lives
Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism
Runtime 1:32:42, 2 October 2023
🧬2023-10-0303 min
DEPTH Work: A Holistic Mental Health Podcast37. Two Mental Health Workers In Love: On Communication, Processing Conflict, and Learning from the Past with Leah Pressman & Jay StevensIn all of our relationships, we bring our history, the roles we’ve played, our strategies for belonging, our privilege, and our worldview to the dynamic. In this episode, we get to hear from two deeply reflective mental health workers, who spend much of their time attempting to redefine helping relationships within and outside the system, about their personal experiences with love and relationships. They shed light on their process for communication and the values they share that sometimes also apply to how they show up for friends, family, and their clients.
We also discuss:
lessons le...2023-03-171h 24
Dreaming the World to ComeShvat with Socket KlatzkerSocket Klatzker is a community organizer, trauma therapist, conflict mediator, and workshop facilitator, as well as a fat queer, disabled ritualist who approaches healing with a focus on Refuat Ha Nefesh- the healing of the soul from trauma, grief, conflict, and oppression. They work with various communities that experience trauma as a result of oppression. Socket is passionate about healing with nature, community, and collective liberation. Socket lives with beloved community in rural TN.
http://www.socketklatzker.com/
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You can find video versions of the p...2023-01-2353 min
Zora's DaughtersS3, E9 You Asked, We Answered!We have a major announcement up top so be sure to tune in!
Today on the episode we center... YOU! We asked for your listener questions and wow, you delivered. In this episode, we answer questions about pursuing a PhD and career advance, dealing with imposter syndrome, taking unprescribed "academic performance enhancing medications," love bombing and giving cis het men the cheat codes to your heart, dating bisexual men, moving in together before marriage, getting help without involving the police, not making abolition about your feelings, learning from our elders, and making it less acceptable to record...2023-01-181h 40
The Emergent Strategy PodcastLiberatory Harm Reduction with Shira HassanShira Hassan is a long time activist whose work focuses on the experiences of girls, boys, transgender and queer youth involved in the sex trade and street economy. She is the co-author of Fumbling Towards Repair and the author of Saving Our Own Lives. This week, Shira joins Sage to talk about black holes, her book Saving Our Own Lives, and sex work as care work.
Transcript found here.2022-12-2251 min
Movement MemosWe Need Harm Reduction With a Liberatory Vision“Liberatory Harm Reduction is concrete. It is a framework, but it is also a daily practice, and it is also a set of strategies. So what strategies do we need that prioritize self-determination and body autonomy right now? And how can we come up with whatever it is that we need collectively to get us through?” asks Shira Hassan, author of Saving Our Own Lives. In this episode, Shira talks with Kelly about healing justice, the radical origins of harm reduction, and how we can save ourselves and one another in these times.You can find a tran...2022-12-011h 05
Seeds of Culture ChangeThe Personal JourneyOur own personal equity journeys are essential in this work. This episode will feature storytelling from Lisa Moore and Zach Cockrum, folks who have spent time self reflecting on their journeys with accountability, healing, and repair.
Show Notes
bell hooks - The Will to Change
Shame and Accountability with Brene Brown
Thich Nhat Hanh Podcast
Liz Plank - For the Love of Men
Man Enough podcast
Mariame Kaba and Shira Hassan - Fumbling Towards Repair
Ijeoma Oluo - Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America
Colorizing Restorative Justice
Fania E. Davis...2022-11-161h 02
Haymarket Books LiveSaving Our Own Lives: A Liberatory Practice of Harm ReductionJoin Shira Hassan, Mariame Kaba, adrienne maree brown, Erica Woodland, and The Native Youth Sexual Health Network for a conversation about liberatory harm reduction and Shira Hassan's new book, Saving Our Own Lives.
In her new book, Saving Our Own Lives: A Liberatory Practice of Harm Reduction, Shira Hassan tells the stories of how sex workers, Black, Indigenous, and people of color, queer folks, trans, gender non-conforming, and two-spirit people are – and have been - building systems of change and support outside the societal frameworks of oppression and exploitation.
At a political moment when Liberatory Harm Reduction and mutual aid ar...2022-10-211h 30
Beyond PrisonsCI Toolkit: Perspectives On Interventions feat. Mimi Kim & Shira HassanThis is the third episode in our Creative Interventions series, where we explore this fantastic and practical toolkit for stopping interpersonal violence and speak with some of the people whose organizing efforts directly informed it. We speak with Mimi Kim and Shira Hassan once again, this time with reflections, observations, and other notes for people who are considering interventions. If you’ve got the toolkit at home, which you can purchase from AK press or access for free at creative-interventions.org, we’re touching on some of the topics in Section 2.3, which is entitled, “Violence Intervention: Some Import...2022-10-1259 minBeyond PrisonsCI Toolkit: What Does Interpersonal Violence Look Like? feat. Mimi Kim & Shira HassanThis is the second episode in our Creative Interventions series, where we explore this fantastic and practical toolkit for stopping interpersonal violence and speak with some of the people whose organizing efforts directly informed it. We speak with Mimi and Shira Hassan about the basics of interpersonal violence as outlined in the Creative Interventions Toolkit. If you’ve got the toolkit at home, which you can purchase from AK press or access for free at creative-interventions.org, we’re touching on some of the topics in Section 2: Some Basics Everyone Should Know. There’s a lot more in thi...2022-09-2735 min